The 25th Anniversary of the WWW: Transition to Socialism or Regression into Barbarism?

The 25th Anniversary of the WWW: Transition to Socialism or Regression into Barbarism? Christian Fuchs                     By Svilen.milev (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons 1. The WWW and Capitalism When Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 – [...]

The (Un-)Freedom of Information under Capitalism

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